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1. #HOW TO CREATE A DESKTOP NOTE WINDOWS 10#
2. #HOW TO CREATE A DESKTOP NOTE WINDOWS 8.1#
3. #HOW TO CREATE A DESKTOP NOTE WINDOWS#

I’m probably just simple-minded, but I think that process is complicated enough that MS should describe it somewhere in Cortana’s memory with a high enough priority that it would show up near the top of queries related to desktop, shortcuts, and W10. I will guess that if you can search and find the “title” for a similar “executable” file for websites, apps, etc., the similar last step will work.

#HOW TO CREATE A DESKTOP NOTE WINDOWS#

Tip: To open additional Quick Notes, press Windows + Alt + N on your keyboard for each additional Quick Note that you want to create. On your keyboard, press Windows + Alt + N. Select, then drag and drop, icon for the executable program (WINWORD.exe). You can create a Quick Note even if you haven’t opened OneNote. Select and open program folder (office 14) Scroll to desired program listing (will be three “layers” in this example, e.g. Open Windows Explorer (sometimes still identified as WE, now often called File Explorer), probably an icon on the task bar.Ĭlick on Program Files (possibly Program Files (x86) for some other programs) What I finally found to work for MS Word): My interest was to get old-fashioned ‘programs ‘ (like MS Word) to have shortcuts on the desktop like W7. “Official” Microsoft instructions are essentially non-existent, so we are all stuck with exchanging amateur adventures that aren’t particularly general and often now clearly expressed (mine included).

#HOW TO CREATE A DESKTOP NOTE WINDOWS 10#

I generally agree that Windows 10 is so much more complicated than Windows 7, that many things that were easy (and had gotten sort of intuitive) in Windows 7 are now more complicated and (at least) temporarily unintuitive. I don’t claim to be an expert, to understand all the variations above, or that my solution will work for all. To turn on Start menu, open Taskbar and navigation properties, switch to the Start menu tab and then uncheck the option labelled Use the start menu instead of the Start screen before clicking the Apply button. NOTE: If you have enabled the Start screen in Windows 10, you need to turn on the Start menu in order to create desktop shortcuts for apps. No, you don’t get a Send to desktop or Create shortcut option when you right-click on an app in the Start menu but you can follow the given below instructions to create shortcuts of your favourite Metro, Modern or Universal apps on the desktop. In Windows Explorer (Windows 7) or File Explorer (Windows 8), navigate to where you saved. While playing with the new Start menu in Windows 10, I noticed that we can now create app shortcuts on the desktop without the help of third-party utilities. Delete all Sticky Notes you currently have on the Computer, if any. You can launch apps right from the Start menu and resize them just like traditional programs developed for the desktop environment.

Things have changed dramatically with Windows 10.

#HOW TO CREATE A DESKTOP NOTE WINDOWS 8.1#

While Windows 8.1 let users pin apps to the taskbar, it was not possible to have desktop shortcuts of apps. Though Windows 8.1 was slightly better for desktop users, it was still lacking the ability to create desktop shortcuts for metro apps installed from the Store.